Search results for 'tag:Resume tag:American English' matching tags 'Resume' and 'American English'

Re: Is there such thing as white lie and black lie?

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:48:00 GMT

Flamen000, you've just described me on a typical day in the office and I rarely lie, except when the boss asks me what I did yesterday.Â

In answer to the OP, The term white lie is used in English English, I have no idea on American English but presume its the same, but have never heard the term black lie.

Re: Difference between CV & Resume

Dominik — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:45:42 GMT

curriculum vitae = resume (American English)

Re: Whose property?

Tam Sadek — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:10:27 GMT

Yes I know Milky He also wrote a forward praising the BC publication I quoted... I think he and the BC see themselves as 'the defenders of the faith' wherein 'faith' now means one particular brand of English...

I love the wackiness of it all though! What? British English is the world leader like Coke, and American English is what? Pepsi, or do they mean Brit Speak is a fine wine; American, cheap plonk; and Aussie English is what? An alcopop?

Let's ignore the 21st Century and restart the 19th all over again and bring Britain back to prominence... hahaha

I certainly do not adhere to that point of view! English is a dynamic language which is constantly changing and as such cannot be 'frozen' at a point that some native-speakers may find 'comforting'... Just look at the new inclusions into the Language Review, such as 'waparazzi' being the term for people who take photos of celebs on their WAP phones, and 'screenager' as they tend to spend all their time in front of various screens...

Certainly HRH won't be using either of those, I presume, even though they have now entered the 'British brand of English'. But does anyone care whether he does? I don't! I prefer English 'like what she is spoke'...

Re: should be + Ving

Teo — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:50:50 GMT

Mister Micawber wrote:

Ought to, I presume. Without context, that is the expected comment.

The sentence in question is quoted from Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners of American English (2002), so there is no context.

Re: Mistake from where

Danyoo — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 03:47:15 GMT

For the whole, I enclosed herewith my resume for your kind consideration and I hope my solid experience would properly help myself to develop my career in this field.
Suggestion: Herewith I have enclosed my resume for your kind consideration and hope my solid experience will enable me to further develop my career in this field.
-For the whole is not needed.
-I hope my.....will....not would.
-Better to say further develop since you are saying you already have experience.

I would like to success your business if future great cooperation can be achieved.
Suggestion: I am looking forward to getting an opportunity to contribute to the future success of your company.
-This is very poorly constructed sentence.

I look forward to being granted an interview, when I shall be glad to explain myself to you more detail.
Suggestion: I look forward to being granted an interview, at which time I will be glad to further explain more about myself.
-shall be is not commonly used in modern day English...at least not in American English.

On Sunday / Sunday

My Celine — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 07:27:21 GMT

I found it on CNN.com. American English is so different from British English. Here is an example as follows:

E.g.:Envoys to deadlocked North Korean nuclear talks will take a recess, the Chinese government announced Sunday, without giving a date for negotiations to resume.

"ON" is missing in the sentence. I am wondering if it is acceptable from a grammatical point of view.

And, If the British see this kind of sentence, will they regard it as completely wrong?

Re: New Version?

khoff — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:25:42 GMT

Hi Hitchhiker - it looks like there are lots of good new features (no one can claim ignorance of how to bold and underline, for instance). I have one quibble - on the user profile page, it offers me a choice of languages, which I presume to mean to identify my native language - and the only "English" choice is "British English"! How about just "English," or else a choice among "British English," "American English" and "Other English." I tried to write in "American English" but it wouldn't let me. Have I misunderstood something here? Thanks.

Re: Why American English??

Guest — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:40:12 GMT

To the citizens of the United States of America:
In the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories.

Except Utah, which she does not fancy.

Your new Prime Minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a Minister for America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Then look up "aluminium."
Check the pronunciation guide.
You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour'; skipping the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters.
You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z'(pronounced 'zed' not
'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise."

You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh
You are welcome to re-spell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation.
Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels.
Look up "vocabulary."
Using the same thirty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "uhh", "like", and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
Look up "interspersed."

There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show.
If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows.
When you learn to develop your vocabulary, then you won't have to use bad language as often.

2. There is no such thing as "US English."
We will let Microsoft know on your behalf.
The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize."

3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents.
It really isn't that hard.
English accents are not limited to cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier).
You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents --- Scottish dramas such as "Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles.
While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon."
If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.

4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys.
Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters.
British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.

5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1.
We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.

6. You should stop playing American "football."
There is only one kind of football.
What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game.

The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football.
You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football.

Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls.
It is a difficult game.
Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies).
We are hoping to get together at least a US Rugby sevens side by 2006.

You should stop playing baseball.
It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of America.
Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.
Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called "rounders," which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.

7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns.
You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler.
Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday.
November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but only in England.
It will be called "Indecisive Day."

9. All American cars are hereby banned.
They are crap, and it is for your own good.
When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts.
You will start driving on the left with immediate effect.
At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables.
Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

10. You will learn to make real chips.
Those things you call 'French fries' are not real chips.
Fries aren't even French, they are Belgian though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium.
Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps."
Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat.
The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat.
Waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.

11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.

12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling "beer" is not actually beer at all, it is lager.
From November 1st only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer," and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager."
The substances formerly known as "American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine," with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine."
This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in the Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.

13. From November 10th the UK will harmonise petrol (or "gasoline," as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2006) prices with the former USA.
The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $6/US gallon -- get used to it).

14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists.
The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent.
Guns should only be handled by adults.
If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun

15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.

16. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).

Thank you for your co-operation.

Re: British vs. American use of plural pronouns

monica — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:44:52 GMT

This is basically the difference between American and British English. British generally use collective nouns, such as team, company, committee, etc., with plural form of verb, whereas it is not so in American English. I presume both are correct, also it depends on the kind of Language being used.